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Nearly 200,000 People Are Evacuating Over “Imminent Failure” Of California’s Oroville Dam – Live Feeds

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Update # 3: How bad this could get…

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Update #2: Summing up the farce in Oroville – here is the government’s view of the situation…

And here is the actual situation…

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Update: NBC reports that the spillway has now failed: “The Oroville Dam’s auxiliary spillway has failed, forcing the evacuations of several counties in California, with nearly 188,000 people forced to evacuate from Butte, County, Calif., alone.”

Authorities are holding a press conference over the Oroville dam spillway failure:

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Large-scale evacuations are taking place among residents of the low levels of Oroville and areas downstream after torrential rains led to the overflow of Lake Oroville in Northern California for first time in 48-year history, leading to what is said to be an imminent failure of the dam’s spillway, which according to officials could “lead to a failure of the structure.”

Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California in the United States. At 770 feet (230 m) high, it is the tallest dam in the U.S. and serves mainly for water supply, hydroelectricity generation and flood control.

Officials said a hazardous situation is developing with the Oroville Dam auxiliary spillway. The operation of the auxiliary spillway has led to severe erosion that could lead to a failure of the auxiliary spillway.

According to Fox 40, officials are anticipating an imminent failure of the auxiliary spillway at Oroville Dam. “Officials are anticipating a failure of the Auxiliary Spillway at Oroville Dam within the next 60 minutes (5:45 p.m.),” the California Department of Water Resources said on Facebook.

On Twitter the agency added that the “Auxiliary spillway at Oroville Dam predicted to fail within the next hour. Oroville residents evacuate northward.”

According to a posting by the CDWR, residents should evacuate in a northward direction, toward Chico. The flash flood warning is in effect until 4:15 p.m. Monday.

According to Fox 40, failure would result in an uncontrolled release of flood waters from Lake Oroville. The DWR is increasing water released to 100,000 cubic feet per second. Furthermore, use of the auxiliary spillway has lead to severe erosion that could lead to a failure of the structure, causing unprecedented flooding and damage.


Water flows over the emergency spillway at Lake Oroville

Immediate evacuation from the low levels of Oroville and areas downstream have been ordered.

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for possible dam failure.

Areas affected include Oroville, Palermo, Gridley, Thermalito, South Oroville, Oroville Dam, Oroville East and Wyandotte. An evacuation center for residents has been set up at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds at 2357 Fair Street in Chico.

As the following choppercam photo shows, thousands of people are scrambling to evacuate the downstream areas.

The full press release is below:

According to some, it is criminal that California agencies have waited so long before ordering the evacuation. Much more information is available in the following video:

Readers can keep track of live updates at the following link.


Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2017/02/13/nearly-200000-people-are-evacuating-over-imminent-failure-of-californias-oroville-dam-live-feeds/


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